This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
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I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think the fun thing about doing a project under your own name is that literally anything could be a follow up,… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I swear I will neva figure out girls. Just when you think it's good its not good. I think all girls who… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again,… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image